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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 10, 19M. 1,197,328, PatentedSept. 5, 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 10. 1914.

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SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

Application filed October 10, 1914. Serial No. 866,110.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, GIUsErPE DI REUBEN ARBIB, a subject of the King ofEngland, residing at London, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in wearing apparel and refers toa means for improving the appearance of a shirt-front, particularly adress shirt-front, by holding it at all times in tension, particularlyin a lateral direction with the object of preventin the shirt-front frombulging or creasing.

Treviously it has been proposed to employ a strap or band, resilient orotherwise, which is adapted to pass around the back of the wearer and issecured at its ends to the sides of the shirt-front by a loop or asingle clip or button. Also a brace has been suggested comprising 7 astrap which was adapted to pass around the back of the slnrt and to bebuttoned at its ends to triangular flaps or tags which were secured tothe edge of the shirt-front at their bases, while their apices wereprovided with single buttonholes for connection with the ends of thestrap. According to the present invention, however, such an attachmentor brace is resilient or otherwise and is secured or adapted to besecured to the shirt, or to a part connected with it, on each side ofthe shirt-front and to pass around the back of the wearer, and ischaracterized by having ends which provide an extended connection withthe shirt, or with the interposed part, along a line on or close to theside of the shirtfront. Thus the tension of the brace is distributedmore evenly over the shirtfront. Preferably the dimension of the bracealong the line of its connection with the shirt is greater than asimilar dimension of its middle portion.

A feature of the invention consists in a member which is separate fromthe brace, is secured or is adapted to be secured to the shirt, hasmeans of attachment between it and the brace, and has an extendedconnection with the shirt along or close to the side or edge of theshirt-front.

The invention will be better understood by reference to the followingdescription taken in connection with the accompanying drawings whichillustrate preferred embodiments and in which Figure 1 shows ashirt-brace applied to a shirt; Fig. 2 shows a modified means ofapplying the brace to the shirt; Fig. 3 shows a brace; Fig. 4 shows amodified construction of brace; and Figs. 5-9 show some forms ofintermediate member to be interposed between the shirt and the brace.

Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.

Referring to Fig. l the brace is composed only partially of resilientmaterial and is substantially the same as that illustrated in Fig. 3with the exception of the manner in which it is applied to the shirt andof the buckle B shown in Fig. 1. Thus, referrmg to Fig. 3 it will beseen that the brace comprises two triangular side pieces A of linen orother desirable material connected by an elastic or resilient connectorB. In Fig. l the bases of the triangular pieces A are secured to thefront or a portion of the shirt near the front by stitching, while inthe construction according to Figs. 2 and 3 they are secured by buttonsand buttonholes, the latter being provided on the shirt at or near theedge of the front. The portions A are provided with stiifeners ofwhalebone or the like at A which may be slipped into pockets providedfor that purpose or stitched or held in place by any convenient means.In order to prevent the portlon of the brace at the back of the wearerfrom shifting, a loop may be provided on the shirt as at B in Fig. 1.

If desired, to more securely maintain the front in tension the flap ortag which is customarily provided at the bottom of the shirt-front maybe pinned or clipped or otherwise secured to another portion of thewearing apparel so as to cooperate with the above described brace toapply a tension mainly in a direction at right-angles to the resultantof the tension applied by the brace. Preferably this tag is enlarged inits lateral direction as shown in the accompanying drawings at O, thatis to say, that portion of it secured to the bottom of the front eX-tends for a greater length along that portion of the front than isusually the case. Such a tag or vflap may be triangular as shown indotted lines in Fig. 2 or rectangular as shown in full lines in Figs.land 2. In the former case the loose point of the flap is secured to aportion of the wearing apparel after the shirt has been put on, while inthe latter case the twofree corners are secured in a similar manner. Theside pieces A and the bottom tag or flap C are all preferably designedto have an extended line of connection with the front (or a portion ofthe shirt adjacent the front) as above described so as to distribute,more or less evenly, the tension over the surface of the front, Ifdesired, when the brace is secured to the shirt as described inconnection with Fig. 1, the portion B, resilient or otherwise, may be intwo parts connected together by means of a buckle as shown at B Amodified construction of brace is shown in Fig. 4: in which thetriangular portions have been substituted by several separate tags as atA These may otherwise be formed by separate strips or tapes securedtogether by their ends to the part such as B and extending fan-wise tobe secured by their other ends to the shirt. 7

In Figs. 58 there have been shown additional strips which may be securedto the shirt to obviate the necessity of securing the actual brace tothe shirt. In Fig. 5, A shows one end of the brace and D is a stripseparate from the brace A which can conveniently be sewn as at D to theedge of the shirt-front or a portion near the edge thereof. Between thestrip D and the brace A are any suitable means of attachment and in theexample shown the strip D has been provided with button-holes D while onthe brace are buttons. Alternatively the brace may be provided withbutton-holes and buttons may be on the strip D.

Fig. 6 shows a modified form of the strip D in which each button-hole oreach point of attachment is located in an extended or pointed portion ofthe strip. The points may be engaged by any convenient form of clip orother attachment in place of buttonmg.

In Fig. 7 the strip D has been shown as replaced by a length of loopedtape or cord or any convenient material as at E, while in Fig. 8 amember similar, to the member E is shown as secured to a strip D Fig. 9shows a modified method of securing the buttons to the brace, whereinthey are at the endsfOf tapes or the like A It will therefore be seenthat the attachment such as D D or E constitutes the means of attachmentbetween the shirt and the brace. It also obviates any necessity forsewing the brace permanently to the shirt. The strips such as D D or Eare readily sewn or otherwise secured to the shirt and may remainpermanently fixed in place and in supplying a shirt-brace according tomy invention preferably the brace A and the strip D D would be suppliedtogether.

Buttons and button-holes have been illustrated as the means ofattachment between the brace and the shirt or between the brace and theadditional strip or member such as D D or E. Obviously any otherconvenient means of attachment could be employed, for example hooks andeyes, clip or spring hooks, clip buttons, press buttons or any otherconvenient attachment could take the place of the buttons andbutton-holes and it is further within the invention to secure one sideof the brace to the shirt by one kind of fastener and the other side bymeans of another kind of fastener. Thus, one side of the brace could besewn and the other side fastened by buttons, clips or the like.

It is immaterial to the present invention whether the hooks or eyes orother clip members be on the brace or the auxiliary strip or member orthe shirt provided that there be interengaging devices for the severalparts where required. Where buttonholes are employed they may be eithersewn around with thread or the like in the usual manner or they may beprovided with metal eyelets. The auxiliary strips or members such as Dand E are preferably sewn to the edge of the shirt or to a part adjacentthereto although the invention is not limited to this means of securingthem in place as any other convenient method of attachment may beemployed. 7

The invention is not limited to the details described provided thespirit of the invention, as defined by the claims, is not departed from.The details of the construction of the brace, such as the particularformation or the material of which it is formed may be modified. Inplace of elastic for the resilient portion any other resilient means maybe employed. Also, it is not essential that the stiffener A be providedalthough, particularly if the brace is buttoned or clipped to theshirt-front, it is'desirable.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis 1. A shirt-brace for the purpose de scribed comprising a single bandseparate from the shirt and adapted to pass around the back of thewearer, separate portions of material to which the ends of the said bandare secured and which is interposed between the said ends and the shirtsufficiently near to the edge of the shirt-front to permit the brace toapply a tension across the front, the interposed portions being sodimensioned that they may each be connected with the shirt over anextended line substantially parallel with the shirt-front and the saidends being so shaped and dimensioned as a single piece of material thatthey may be connected with the interposed portions over an extended lineof approximately the same dimensions, and means for detachably securingthe said end-portions to the said interposed portions, substantially asdescribed.

2. A shirt-brace for the purpose described comprising a single bandseparate from the shirt and adapted to pass around In testimony whereofI have signed my the back of the wearer, laterally extended name to thisspecification in the presence of 10 ends on said band, stifieningmembers attwo subscribing Witnesses.

tached to said ends and means for connect- GIUSEPPE m REUBEN ARBIR ingeach of said ends With the shirt over an extended line substantiallyparallel with the Witnesses: edge of the shirt-front, substantially asde- HAROLD WADE, scribed. HARRY B. REID, Jr.

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